{"id":354,"date":"2006-09-27T11:34:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/09\/27\/ex-ceo-of-comverse-arrested-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T16:36:13","slug":"ex-ceo-of-comverse-arrested-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/ex-ceo-of-comverse-arrested-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CEO of Comverse arrested in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kobi Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse Technology was arrested in the African republic of Namibia and is going to be extradited to the United States.  Alexander is a citizen of both the U.S. and Israel, and has been missing for the last month, after he failed to show up for a hearing in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander is the co-founder of Comverse, a telecommunications company in New York.  He and two other former executives have been charged with [tag]conspiracy[\/tag] to commit [tag]mail fraud[\/tag], conspiracy to commit [tag]wire fraud[\/tag], and conspiracy to commit [tag]securities fraud[\/tag].  These charges related to their alleged plan to manipulate [tag]stock options[\/tag].<\/p>\n<p>The FBI issued a warrant for Alexander&#8217;s arrest on July 31.  He reportedly was living openly in Namibia, a country which has an active Israeli expatriate community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobi Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse Technology was arrested in the African republic of Namibia and is going to be extradited to the United States. Alexander is a citizen of both the U.S. and Israel, and has been missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}